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  • noun Alternative spelling of dueler.

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  • noun a person who fights duels

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Examples

  • It was that quality of courage that struck every one who saw him; it was not only that he feared, it seemed, no one and nothing, but that he went a step further than that, spending his life in defying every one and everything, as a practised dueller might challenge every one he met in order to keep his play in practice.

    The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

  • The dueller feller pays for all, and we're only waiting for my partner to roll in a keg of some of the slickest Yankee whiskey that was ever made in York

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • We have seen here the miserable consequences that befall the conquered dueller.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • You may also see the hope and support of many a flourishing family untimely cut off by the sword of a drunken dueller, in vindication of something that he miscalls his honour.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

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